Men: is your clock ticking?

Alice Wignall: If you're in your mid-30s and you want to be a father at some point then the answer should, unfortunately, be yes

The sound of my ticking

Nirpal Dhaliwal: News of men's biological clocks doesn't surprise me. And I feel it that bit stronger here in India

China’s new freedom fighters

Countless thousands of people in China are blacklisted, harassed, intimidated and locked up merely for what they say or because of the job they do

‘I was never about boo hoo hoo’

Dave Pelzer, who single-handedly launched the 'misery lit' genre with his horrific memoir of childhood abuse, is now publishing his fourth self-help book. In it, he insists that happiness is all about 'moving on'. So why does he continue to obsessively trawl through his own past? Decca Aitkenhead meets him